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@PlebGate well I see your point. But I didn't realise it had been written by a woman until I read your comment. It could have been written by a man.

I'd just rather we didn't resort to stereotypes that detracts from the discussion point that we agree with, the fact that this is a terrible article consisting of self indulgent drivell about the authors 'amazing' life wrapped up in a 'woe is me' story. Reply+11

Well that's all very good for you, travelling about, DJ'ing, but it would be irrelevant to me who goes form his house in a satalite town, to the childminders, drops off his kid, goes to work for a numbe of hours and does the reverse in the evening.

And you definitely proved your point that humans are obsessed with themselves, or at least that you are. Reply+18

@Unrein as a real life transport planner I was shocked at the realism. Its similar to rw traffic models in predicting where junctions etc will get clogged. Its way finding is poor, because people aren't stupid and change their route bases in experience. Or if you vuld a bypass, because they know its more convenient. But that's £30 as opposed to £300,000 so.... Reply+4

I've flip flopped between Windows and Linux since 98. Each time up until the last time games drove me back to WinOS. Mint is an almost perfect OS for the PC desktop. However Linux still does not support many features such as GPU switching... In the end I gave up and went back to Win7.

SteamOS felt dumbed down and reminded me very much of a console front end. The advantage of PC gaming is that you can do the 'boring' stuff, the 'needed' stuff and the fun stuff on the same machine. SteamOS doesn't help in this regard.

Steam needs to gets with a major distro like Mint and get in with hardware manufacturers such as MSI to really push the platform, otherwise it just remains niche.

In reality Windows is good value, £100 for 3-4 years of updated, supported, 'open' ish computing is ok.

I'd rather have a Linux distro supported by Steam which 'works' though. Reply+33

@Cartho I have to grab my gaming where I can. With no spare room, that's often on my lap. So its nearly always plugged in. It's not a small niche, but I agree at this price point its hardly mass market! Reply+8

I am a big fan of handhelds. I have GBs GBAs NeoGeo Pockets... Etc etc.

This may be not only the definitive 3DS console but the definitive handheld. Despite my affection for the format I can't see handhelds with cartridges surving this age of convergence.

Perhaps Nintendo will try once more, but I can't see it being a wild success. It is the age of the mobile. Tbh in my head I'd love to see a BlackBerry Nintendo link up, king of mobile hardware with physical buttons meets king of mobile gaming.

@phantasma I think this genre tends to appeal to those seeking some creativity, innocent escapism, and gentle enjoyment. Even civ and tropico. You can beat banished, but that's all you're doing, beating the game, not playing it your way or enjoying the experience. Reply0

CiM2 was too nerdy and complex even for my tastes. And I loooove transport sims. CiM was epic. All this has too be is less disappointing than the eternally frustrating Banished and I'm in heaven! Reply0

Likely to cause aggro if ppl receive the offer and then can't actually have it. You can do experiments on monkeys and if you offer them something and take it away they are waaaaay more pissed than if you didn't offer it. Kids know this too. My dick head train company did it to me the other week with free ticket to anywhere offer which I couldn't actually have.

So if you piss off a whle load of peeps... What do you get? Another Xbox f ck up. Reply+4

I loved this at first but fell into the trap of wanting to build a huge functioning prison before the first inmate arrived. Its a bad trap. Theme Park and others managed to avoid this, but you need so many facilities for a decent sized prison that its easy to fall into. Reply+1